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Speeding Up Innovation in Latin America with Cisco’s ‘Internet for the Future’
Co-author: Max Tremp, Senior Director Sales Engineering & Trustee Board of Directors for the Cisco Foundation In the next decade, we’ll see technology that will unleash new possibilities and generate state-of-the-art benefits to society. But many of the world’s regions, including Latin America,…
Fighting Cybercrime and Creating Jobs for Latin America
The digitization of the world has come a long way since 2016, when I wrote about how Cisco offers cybersecurity scholarships to increase the number of skilled cybersecurity specialists. And today, cybersecurity is more important than ever. Our increasingly digital world is more and more vulnerable t…
Inspiring Women Leaders in IT
Co-Author: Luz Ma Murguia, Latin American Marketing Director, Cisco There is evidence that a shortage of technology professionals is undermining business performance. In a 2016 survey by Venture Beat, 65% of Chief Information Officers (CIOs) and other business leaders said that difficulty in recruit…
Bridging the Gap to Economic Vitality
There’s no better place to talk about bridging the gap to economic vitality in Latin America than in Miami, where the 6th annual eMerge Americas conference recently took place. eMerge brings together business and government leaders who are transforming industries, countries, and lives with innovativ…
How a New Telemedicine Training Initiative is Closing the IT Skills Gap in Argentina
The digital transformation of Argentina has begun – and Cisco is at the forefront of the change. First though, it’s important to note that, Latin America faces some daunting statistics: 21 million Latin Americans will be unemployed by the end of this year, and at the same time, the region will need…
Saving Lives in Latin America with Telemedicine
Telemedicine is having an enormous impact on the quality of life for Latin Americans. Nearly 83% of the 423 million people who live in South America reside in urban areas. 72 million people occupy rural areas. Both groups find it difficult to access specialized medical care in a timely fashion. Acco…
Filling the IT Skills Gap in Latin America with Qualified IT Talent
We are quickly moving into an era of accelerated digitization. Where technology connects everything –people, processes, data, and things. These connections will create a sustainable impact for every aspect of society. It’s predicted there will be over 50 billion connected things by 2020. In order fo…
Digitizing Education in Latin America: Creating the Jobs of Tomorrow
We live in the age of digitization. Digital tablets are replacing books, we get our news from RSS feeds instead of newspapers, “records” are being released as MP3s, and cars will soon be driving themselves. Yet at the same time, many people do not have enough food to eat, reliable medical care, or a…
Digital Guayaquil
At Cisco, we have identified the Internet of Everything (IoE) as the next wave of the Internet, an explosion of connectivity among people, process, data, and things. We have estimated that these connections in the IoE offer a staggering $19 trillion in Value at Stake over the next decade for both pr…